Unwitting CIA Anthropologist Collaborators: MK-Ultra, Human Ecology, and Buying a Piece of Anthropology
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Published:April 2016
2016. "Unwitting CIA Anthropologist Collaborators: MK-Ultra, Human Ecology, and Buying a Piece of Anthropology", Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology, David H. Price
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Details of a CIA funding front known as the Human Ecology Fund are examined. The Human Ecology Fund was overseen by Cornell University Medical School neurologist Harold Wolff, MD. The fund secretly received CIA funds and financed a broad range of social and behavioral science research undertaken by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, medical researchers, and others. While the scholars receiving grants for research were unaware of CIA sponsorship, some of the funded research informed CIA research into interrogation and interrogation-resistance projects.
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